“Through The Power Vested In Me By The State”

J. R. Daniel Kirk questions the phrase:

We have lived so long with pastors saying, “.. and through the power vested in me by the State of _____…” that we don’t even realize how weird that is. Can you imagine Jesus performing a wedding and saying, “through the power invested in me by Caesar Augustus and his Governor Pontius Pilate…”?

Fred Clark agrees.